4901:1-10-07
Outage reports.

(A)
As used in
this rule, "outage" means an interruption of service to:

(1)
Two thousand five hundred or more
customers in an area for a projected or actual
period of four hours or more.

(2)
One hundred or more customers in an area for a projected
or actual period of twenty-four hours or
more.

(3)
A facility of any
telephone company, electric light company, natural gas company, water-works
company, or a sewage disposal system company, as defined in section
4905.03 of the Revised Code and
including a company that is operated not-for-profit, or owned or operated by a
municipal corporation, when an interruption to that facility for a projected
period of four hours or more, affects or will affect public safety.

(4)
Any police department, fire department,
hospital, or countywide 9-1-1 system, for a projected period of four hours or
more.

As used in this paragraph, "area" means the electric utility's
certified territory within a county or all adjoining municipalities and
townships in an electric utility's certified territory.

(B)
Each electric utility shall
immediately report each outage to the commission's outage coordinator
in a format prescribed by the outage coordinator.